Constitutionalism in Asia in the Early Twenty-First Century

Contents

List of figures pagevii

List of tables viii

Contributors ix

Preface xiii

1 The achievement of constitutionalism in Asia: moving beyond

‘constitutions without constitutionalism’ 1

Albert H.Y. Chen

2 East Asian constitutionalism in comparative perspective 32

Tom Ginsburg

3 Major constitutional developments in Japan in the first decade

of the twenty-first century 52

Shojiro Sakaguchi

4 Upgrading constitutionalism: the ups and downs of constitutional

developments in South Korea since 2000 76

Jongcheol Kim

5 Constitutional change in North Korea 101

Dae-Kyu Yoon

6 Chinese constitutional dynamics: a decennial review 118

Wang Zhenmin and Tu Kai

7 A decade of changing constitutionalism in Taiwan: transitional

and transnational perspectives 141

Jiunn-rong Yeh and Wen-Chen Chang

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